Objectives: Learn the definition of a senior Discuss what special things seniors can offer to others Experience what it feels like when your body gets older Start to think about what life was like when seniors were young High Level - 5 min Forge, JrFLL, new topic (Super Seniors) Agenda for the day
Seniors - 10 min What is a senior? (Usually someone retirement age or older, so 65 or older) Who do you know who is that old? What do you think of when you think of seniors? I'm going to read a book that celebrates a special person (Grandpa's Song) -OR- I'm going to read a book about a boy with lots of senior friends (Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge)
Connections (story discussion and/or other ideas) - 10 min
What do you think it's like to be a senior?
Will you ever be one?
How will it happen? (80 years in 40 seconds - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9wToWdXaQg
Interviews - 10 min
- What is one way we can find out more about how things were like 60 - 90 years ago? (Interview)
- Good/bad interview example
Timeline - 15 min - What is a timeline? A way of putting things in order. (Show timeline we created) - Where are we now? When were you born? When were your parents born? Grandparents? Great grandparents? (Add some examples to board) We are going to work on a timeline this season that we can add to each week. If you brought pictures, we'll add them later - Trivia - first lego in 1949 (add to timeline) - How do you think things were different when seniors were born? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbzrx7frD90and/or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKQ5QSfRdBI&feature=relmfu)
Senior Challenge - 40 min Build something you saw in the videos from the 40s and 50s
Wrap up - 5 min Interview about communication for next week
Week 1: September 11
Super Seniors introduction and orientation
Objectives:
Learn the definition of a senior
Discuss what special things seniors can offer to others
Experience what it feels like when your body gets older
Start to think about what life was like when seniors were young
High Level - 5 min
Forge, JrFLL, new topic (Super Seniors)
Agenda for the day
Seniors - 10 min
What is a senior? (Usually someone retirement age or older, so 65 or older)
Who do you know who is that old?
What do you think of when you think of seniors?
I'm going to read a book that celebrates a special person (Grandpa's Song) -OR-
I'm going to read a book about a boy with lots of senior friends (Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge)
Connections (story discussion and/or other ideas) - 10 min
What do you think it's like to be a senior?
Will you ever be one?
How will it happen? (80 years in 40 seconds - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9wToWdXaQg
Interviews - 10 min
- What is one way we can find out more about how things were like 60 - 90 years ago? (Interview)
- Good/bad interview example
Small Groups - 25 min
Feel what it's like to get older - try experiment from here -http://fcs.tamu.edu/families/aging/aging_simulation/index.php
Interview practice and/or play a game (http://www.storydynamics.com/Articles/Education/interviewing.html)
Snack (during Timeline discussion)
Timeline - 15 min
- What is a timeline? A way of putting things in order. (Show timeline we created)
- Where are we now? When were you born? When were your parents born? Grandparents? Great grandparents? (Add some examples to board) We are going to work on a timeline this season that we can add to each week. If you brought pictures, we'll add them later
- Trivia - first lego in 1949 (add to timeline)
- How do you think things were different when seniors were born? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbzrx7frD90and/or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKQ5QSfRdBI&feature=relmfu)
Senior Challenge - 40 min
Build something you saw in the videos from the 40s and 50s
Wrap up - 5 min
Interview about communication for next week
Resources:
The world is getting older
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0907/090721-senior_citizens.html
Revisit display boards -- could they be 3D and work in pairs so their boards witll be interactive?